Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideas of ancient Jews. Greeks and Romans about death, then move into the Christian era. Texts include books of psychology such as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying and Herman Feifel's The Meaning of Death, supplemented with lectures by doctors and clergymen. Elsewhere, students even hear tape-recorded interviews with people who are dying. Says University of Minnesota Sociologist Robert Fulton: "The point is to bring a new perspective to death; to show that it is natural and to counter some of the euphemistic devices our society uses to hide death and dying...
...delegation, composed of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish antiwar clergymen, hopes to climax its visit in Rome with an audience with Pope Paul. It will also travel to the Hague, Bonn and Stuttgart to discuss the war and the religious community's response...
...Confidences to psychotherapists and to clergymen are now privileged, a formal status they did not have before. That privilege does not cover a doctor who is asked in court about treatment of a purely physical ailment...
...some board members must stand for reelection. In preparation for that day of judgment, both presidents will be battling for rank-and-file votes. For his part, Tietjen is counting on the aura and prestige of the seminary -which has produced the majority of the church's clergymen-to ensure the election of a moderate board. Preus will undoubtedly rally the grass-roots conservatives who first elected him in 1969 in a coup against the moderate forces that had dominated the Synod of the '60s. Even if Preus wins the tactical battle of New Orleans...
...once placed around sexual relationships." Sociologists have found an inverse relationship between churchgoing and sexual experimentation: the less of the former, the more of the latter. In fact, suggests Sociologist Ira Reiss, today's teen-agers may have more influence on religion than the other way round. Among liberal clergymen, at least, there is something of a scramble to keep up with youthful ideas on sex. Permissive Catholic priests let their views become known and so in effect encourage liberated youngsters to seek them out for confession. Unitarian churches give courses for 12-to 14-year-olds "About Your Sexuality...